Uniform Color Code Never Changed?

What if the shirt colors from TOS never changed for TNG+, and only the way certain departments were categorized? The system below actually made sense across the generations, with certain unusual cases explained. What does everyone else think?

Hm. I don't think so, but it's thought-provoking. I always did love it that Janeway had been a science officer. The fact that Scotty wore gold with the maroons, and gold later became the operations color for TNG, never occurred to me.

Hm. I don't think so, but it's thought-provoking. I always did love it that Janeway had been a science officer. The fact that Scotty wore gold with the maroons, and gold later became the operations color for TNG, never occurred to me.

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Scotty wore both Gold and White shirts/collars with the Monster Maroon uniforms over the run of the 6 TOS feature films.

Yes, Scotty wore gold except with his toolbelt after he became a captain. Then he wore white, which works with this system.

By the way, I specifically avoided the sue of the term "operations" in the list above. I prefer the terms "Support" and "Services" from the FJSTM and this is why:

O'brien is "Chief of Operations," and Harry Kim is called an "Operations Officer" in "Caretaker". This makes it sound like Operations is more of a Position or Department that can be part of a Division, like services, rather than its own division.

This makes it sound like Operations is more of a Position or Department that can be part of a Division, like services, rather than its own division.

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I don't think it is its own division, it is the organizational parent of engineering, communications, security and any other support functions. Data was the Operations Manager, which meant people like LaForge and Worf reported to him.

While we're giving the divisions finer granularity, I'd separate medical out of sciences. It's quite important during shipboard emergencies, not to mention battle, to be able to easily and quickly locate medical personnel.

I'd also separate security out into its own division. Again, the rationale for fine grain division colors should be to allow crew members to quickly and easily identify other key crew members to help them orient efficiently during emergencies.

What if the shirt colors from TOS never changed for TNG+, and only the way certain departments were categorized? The system below actually made sense across the generations, with certain unusual cases explained. What does everyone else think?

This system is not meant to change the color of what any character wore, but explain that it was all one system for all the years shown on Star Trek. I noted Picard still wore red while a captain, since he was in support earlier in his career, the same way Krasnovsky in TOS wore blue as a science officer even though he was a captain.

This system is not meant to change the color of what any character wore, but explain that it was all one system for all the years shown on Star Trek. I noted Picard still wore red while a captain, since he was in support earlier in his career, the same way Krasnovsky in TOS wore blue as a science officer even though he was a captain.